SCHEDULE
Opening Event: Marxism and Decolonization
Thursday, October 16, 2025
7PM-9PM
Location: TBC
Speakers:
Glen Coulthard (UBC)
Samera Esmeir (UC Berkeley)
Gary Wilder (CUNY)
DAY 2: Friday, October 17, 2025
9AM-6PM
Location: TBC
9:00 – 9:30
Coffee, tea, and muffins
9:30 – 10:00
Opening remarks from the convenors
10:00 – 12:00
Panel 1: Translating Across Ecologies & Ontologies
Sharad Chari (UC Berkeley)
Ikaika Ramones (UC Berkeley)
Gary Wilder (CUNY)
12:00 – 1:30
Lunch
1:30 – 3:30
Panel 2: Translating Across Languages
Samera Esmeir (UC Berkeley)
Hicham Safieddine (UBC)
Sara Kazmi (UPenn)
3:30 – 4:00
Break
4:00 – 6:00
Panel 3: Translating Dialectics
Geo Maher (W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction / UPenn)
Mariana Teixeira (Lisbon)
Dylan Fagan (UChicago)
Day 3: Saturday, October 18, 2025
9AM-6PM
Location: TBC
9:00 – 9:30
Coffee, tea, and muffins
9:30 – 10:00
Opening remarks from the convenors
10:00 – 12:00
Panel 4: Translating the Subversive Seventies
Russell J. Rickford (Cornell)
Glen Coulthard (UBC)
Noaman G. Ali (University of Bath)
12:00 – 1:30
Lunch
1:30 – 3:30
Panel 5: Translating Across Imperial and (Settler) Colonial Contexts
Arwa Awan (Oberlin)
Roba Al-Salibi (Oxford)
Rianne Subijanto (CUNY)
3:30 – 4:00
Break
4:00 – 6:00
Panel 6: The Conceptual Problem of Translation
Gavin Arnall (Michigan)
Sudipta Kaviraj (Columbia)
Angela Giordani (Columbia)